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white and the throat brown likę the crissum. I have seen the type 

 of S.gigantodes in Herr Heine's museum, and considerit the šame as 

 magtioides. 



3. SaLTATOR MAGNUS. 



Tangara des grands bois de Cayenne, Buff. PI. Enl. 205 (fig. pess.). 



Tanagra magna, Gm. S. N. p. 890; Lath. lud. Orn. i. p. 422; 

 Max. Beitr. iii. 525. 



Le griverd de Cayenne, Buffl. PI. Enl. 616 (fig. pess.)? 



Coracias cayana, Bodd. Table d. PI. Enl. 



Coracias cayennensis, Gm. S. N. p. 381. 



Saltator virescens, VieilI. Nouv. Dict. xiv. 104, et Enc. Meth. 

 p. 790? 



Saltator olivascens, Vieill. Nouv. Dict. xiv. 108 ; Enc. Meth. 

 p. 794, et Gal. des Ois. p. 103, pi. 77 ; Tsch. F. P. p. 209. 



Saltator cayennensis, d'Orb. Voy. p. 290. 



Saltator magnus, Gray's Gen. p. 363 ; Bp. Consp. p. 489 ; Cab. 

 Mus. Hein. p. 142. 



Supra Jlavescenti-oUvaceo-viridis, capith lateribus cinereis, super- 

 ciliis ante oculos curtis albis : subtus fulvescenti-cinereus : gula 

 media alba, zitringue nigro-marginata, cervice antica crissoque 

 pallide rvfis : rastro nigro. 



Long. totą 8*0, alse 4*0, caudse 3*7. 



Hab. Cayenne {Poiteau in Mus. Paris.) ; British Guiana (Sckomb.) ; 

 Bogota (Mus. Brit.); East Peru, wood-region (Tsch.); Pintobamba 

 {Cast. et Dev.); Bolivia, Yuracares (d'Orb ); Brazil, Rio (P. Max.). 



Mus. Brit., Paris., &c. 



This Saltator seems very widely distributed orer the South Ame- 

 rican contineut, and is in that respect different from the ręst of its 

 congeners. It may be at once distinguished by its uniforra bright 

 olive-green upper plumage (not of so yellowish a tint as in Saltator 

 atriceps), and the brownish blotch on the foreneck : from S. mag- 

 noides it diflfers in the want of the black throat-band. 



The Brazilian skins are of rather larger dimensions than the 

 Cayenne birds, but do not otherwise differ. 



4. Saltator icteropygius. 



Saltator icteropyga. Dubus, Esq. Orn. pi. 13 ; Gray, Gen. App. 

 p. 16. 



Supra saturate cinerascenti-fuscus : superciliis, mcnto et gutture 

 albis : pectore et epigastrio fulvescenti-cinereis : ventre dilute 

 fulvo : hypochondriis cinereo-fulvis : crisso citrina: remigibus 

 fuscis, extus cinereo Umbatis: rectricibus supra Jiigris viridi-eeneo 

 submicantibus cinereoque extus liinbatis: lateralibus quatuor utrin- 

 que macula magna alba in medio pogonii interni notatis : rostro 

 corneo : pedibus fuscescentibus, 



Hab. Mexico. 



The Vicomte Dubus has given the above dcscription of this curious 

 Saltator, of which there is a specimen in his coUection. Prince 



